[German]The Mozilla developers have released version 108.0.3 of the Firefox browser on January 5, 2022. It is a maintenance update that is supposed to fix two bugs and also brings a small change under macOS. In addition, at this point a note: Starting with Fixefox 110 (until Firefox 120), Mozilla will freeze the user agent of the browser to avoid confusion with Internet Explorer 11.
[German]Microsoft Teams does not update via Windows Update or via Office updates. Instead, the Teams client uses its own update strategy to keep itself current. Microsoft revealed some details about the Microsoft Teams update process in October 2022.
[German]At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023, Microsoft's Windows developer boss Panos Panay held a keynote with chip manufacturer AMD and addressed the future of Windows development. The message: artificial intelligence will find its way into Windows in the future and change everything. The boundaries of what runs locally on the PC and what has been moved to the cloud will blur, according to Microsoft. A glimpse of dystopian conditions? Gimmicks and spinning of a person who has lost his grip on the ground? Is it just wordsmithing or the beginning of a revolution?
[German]The Irish Data Protection Authority (DPC) has imposed a fine of €390 million on Meta for user-based advertising on Facebook and Instagram. As a result, Meta is no longer allowed to run ads using users' personal data without their explicit consent. The whole thing was imposed only after massive protests from the remaining 26 data protection commissioners of other European countries. At the same time, the DPC has announced that it will file a lawsuit against its own decision. Seems it's developing a scandal or a kind of "banana republic".
[German]Brief note for Exchange administrators. Probably administrators of Microsoft Exchange (on-premises) installations know the Exchange Reporter by Frank Zöchling. The tool generates statistics for a Microsoft Exchange Server and outputs them as a report. Frank Zöchling released Exchange Reporter version 3.12 yesterday, January 3, 2023.
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[German]As of January 3, 2023 (first Tuesday of the month), Microsoft has released non-security updates for still-supported versions of Microsoft Office. This month, there are only updates for Microsoft Office 2016, fixing crash errors in Access ODBC accesses and in OLEDB accesses to Sharepoint. Microsoft Office 2013 has not received any updates. Here's a brief overview of the updates.
[German]Brief note for users or administrators of Adobe perpetual licensing software. A German blog reader alerted me about the expiration of a CA certificate on Adobe AEM servers or Adobe LiveCycle ES servers. As of January 7, 2023, any Adobe document servers still in use will no longer function. And there is no certificate renewal for customers who don't have a subscription from Adobe.
[German]There will be some changes for Microsoft Office users in 2023. For example, Microsoft Office 2013 will reach the end of support and access to Microsoft online services will no longer be supported in Office 2016/2019. Furthermore, features in mobile versions of Office are likely to be dropped at the end of 2022. And there are innovations at the beginning of 2023 in Office 365. Here is a brief overview of these topics.
[German]At the turn of the year 2022/2023, Microsoft has deactivated Basic Authentication for Exchange Online. This forced Thunderbird users into connection issues with mail servers via IMAP. Thunderbird reports that the user is authenticated (via oAuth2) but is not connected. But there is a workaround for Thunderbird. Addendum: It seems that Microsoft has fixed the issue.
[German]When using Microsoft Teams, administrators should make sure that no special characters appear in the profile names. This can lead to strange errors. The Teams client may refuse to start if, for example, a round bracket appears in the profile name. Frank Carius came across the problem at a customer in mid-December 2022 and then analyzed the whole thing. And there is a second find from mid-December 2022 in the form of a post in the Microsoft Techcommunity. In both cases, there are tickets at Microsoft, but they relate to different versions of the MS Teams app. Here is a brief overview of these cases, where I am not yet aware of any solutions from Microsoft (only workarounds that users have found).
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
